Paul R. Lichter MD

Associate Editor, American Journal of Ophthalmology

Ann Arbor, MI

Paul R. Lichter, MD, MS is the F. Bruce Fralick Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences and Chair of the University of Michigan's Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, a department founded in 1872. In addition, he serves as Director of the University's W.K. Kellogg Eye Center. He is a native of Detroit and received his undergraduate, medical school, and ophthalmology residency education at the University of Michigan.

Dr. Lichter obtained his glaucoma fellowship training at the University of California, San Francisco, under the late Robert N. Shaffer, MD. Dr. Lichter's research and clinical interests involve glaucoma, clinical trials, genetics. and conflict of interest. He has over 200 publications to his credit including scientific articles, editorials, and book chapters and has delivered over 30 named lectures, including the Edward Jackson Memorial Lecture in 1993.

Currently Dr. Lichter is Secretary-General of Academia Ophthalmologica Internationalis, a Director of The Heed Ophthalmic Foundation, and Chairman of the Society of Heed Fellows. He is a past Editor-in-Chief of the journal Ophthalmology. In 1996, He served as the 100th President of the American Academy of Ophthalmology. He is also a past President of the Association of University Professors of Ophthalmology, the American Ophthalmological Society, the Pan American Association of Ophthalmology, the Pan American Glaucoma Society, the Michigan Ophthalmological Society as well as a past Chair of the American Board of Ophthalmology.